Our mission is to empower marginalized communities, with a focus on women and children, through enhanced volunteer programmes and whole community training to achieve democracy and raise economic productivity.
Working toward women's empowerment enables you to support women in their pursuit for healthy and sustainable livelihoods. Women's groups provide a forum for issues such as family health, women's rights, and access to resources, income generation, and other challenges women face in their daily lives. Volunteers have the opportunity to exchange ideas, collaborate in ongoing projects, teach basic English skills, help with small businesses, and be a positive role model. You can also provide support in many other ways, depending on your skills and interests and the needs of the local community.
VIN has 4 main programmes to empower the local women: 1. Literacy, 2. micro credit and saving; 3. income generative skills training; 4. Forage development
VIN has been conducting different programmes in its working community. We have over 150 women participating in six literacy classes every year. Each class has been facilitated by two young women of the same community. One women programme expert monitors and supervises their works so that all women will learn better. The women also receive additional skills as such, women rights, women health, income generative skills.
Once the women are made literate, VIN provides skills oriented training so that they can generate some income out of it. VIN provided trainings to 81 women in 2007 and they have been associated in 9 different groups. They have been trained in Livestock, incense making, candle making, dry food making etc. They have regular meetings and save some many every month in their saving-credit groups. VIN has trained 50 women this year in organic vegetable farming in June 2008 and has plan to train more women on sawing and knitting, chicken farming, livestock, vegetable gardening, forage development.
All community people use so much artificial fertilizers and the agriculture products are not that healthy so VIN aims to give first hand experience of organic or other ecologically-sound growing methods to the women; help the organic movement which is labour intensive and does not rely on artificial fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides; give people a chance to meet, talk, learn and exchange views with others in the organic movement. Any interested national/ international people having expertise in Organic farming can volunteer with us. VIN will be really indebted to those. You will be helping women learn how to do all of this!
VIN's third programme for supporting women in the same community to be empowered is: by conducting health and environment awareness raising programme. For this VIN has set up 15 nurseries to the same community to help the women to develop good forage. It is because the main income source for women is livestock. They have to carry the fodder from very far and have to spend so much time for this.
Our Forage development programme in the community will help the women to save some time since the grass will be available in the land nearby to them and they can use the unused land to nearby area. It will also help to promote the community environment with trees.
So VIN invites all interested national and international volunteers to be part of our women development programmes. Come with expertise and help women learn or come with no expertise and learn together. Your small effort can make a big difference of the women in the most marginalized communities!!!
Volunteer with VIN in women development programme, teach women to be literate, skilled and empowered. Let's help women to come out of their homes and experience the outer world!
Watch Our Videos
Introduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-eBrGBU3k
Womens Empowerment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cJmt5KzuCU
Children Development:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfJqYFPvVKI
Youth Development:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohv2YHj_5RU
Teachers Development:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-gZSpuV4Yw
Health & Sanitation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ST61JpgBc
Monasteries & Nunneries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pHaqXlmc6I
• Complete on-line application form (
http://www.volunteeringnepal.org/registrationform.php ),
• send with CV and 2 contact details for 2 referees;
• Await confirmation from VIN for acceptance on to volunteer / Internship program;
• Pay $100 program booking fee (non-refundable);
• VIN will confirm payment and send pre-departure pack;
• Full payment for the volunteer placement will be paid during your induction.
